【Data: This week, the cryptocurrency address poisoning scam has resulted in a loss of 1.6 million dollars】According to Golden Finance, ScamSniffer reported that this week, cryptocurrency users have lost over 1.6 million dollars due to address poisoning attacks, a figure that exceeds the total for the entire month of March. On Friday, a victim made a mistake while copying an address from the contaminated transaction history, resulting in a loss of 140 Ethereum (approximately 636,500 dollars). The ScamSniffer team stated: “The user essentially sent 140 Ethereum to a similar address implanted in the transaction history due to a copy-paste error.” They added, “His transaction history is filled with poisoned address attacks, so being scammed was just a matter of time.” Another victim lost cryptocurrency worth 880,000 dollars due to address poisoning on Sunday, while other alerts indicated that one user lost 80,000 dollars, and another lost 62,000 dollars. According to alarm data from cybersecurity companies compiled by Cointelegraph, since this Sunday, scammers have defrauded over 1.6 million dollars in this way, a figure that surpasses the total loss of 1.2 million dollars caused by address poisoning in March.
